Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-11
JAIL-BIRDS OUT.
sEvEE GET AWAY FROM A EoRrH
CAROLINA JAIL.
coprer.ore Finds-A Notorious ex.convict
Arrested-Two Lucky Asheville
Children-several Fires.
lspsc,al telegram to the Dispatch

RALEIGH September 10.-Seven pri-
soners have made their escape from
iail at Franklin, Macon county. Using
an old knife as a saw they cut through
the bars of the iron cell, thence es-
Gaping through the hole they made
Though the ceiling. One OF the es-
caped men is Allen Dehart, OF Swain
county. charged with murder. Five OF
the others are United States prisoners,
held for violations Of the revenue laws
and countcrfeiting.
Napoleon Bonaparte Taylor, DOto-
rious ex-conyict, who served q long
tenn in the penitentiary and is one of
The greatest criminals in the State, has
been very quiet lately. Yesterday
Wiley Stokes appeared at Wilmington
ard informed the officers that Taylor
was moonshining in Pender county. A
few hours later Taylor himself appear
ed, and agreed for some consideration
TO betray Stokes for illicit distllling.
TAYLOR was at once arrested and Stokes
will be. Some years ago IN Moore
county one night Taylor shot and killed
revenue officer
Rev. james Love, Of Elizabeth City,
has been ordained to the ministry OF
Ire BAPTIST church.
Cornelius Stephenson's saw-mills and
cotton-gins, in Elevation township,
Johuston county, were burned Thurs
DAY. Loss, 900; 10 insurance.
lie residence Of Lee j. Taylor at
ScVbClne, was burned yesterday,
,ausing loss If $500, with $1,000
insurance. The residences OF Messrs
.:Ichben, Bynum, ard Colligan, near by,
Nre damaged.
Two children OF George y. Diillrl,
IN AshcyiAc lawyer, have fallen heirs
10 q fortune Of 5 800. $50 left them by
heir uncle, James AicCurry, late OF
Placer, Ca. \ certified copy Of the
vii has been received. The lucky
children are Thomas billiard, aged four
teen years. and Laura billiard, aged
eleven years.
The returns OF crops to this date as
received at the Department of Agricu,-
tune are sufficiently numerous to give a
good idea of their condition. Cotton
III the Piedmont section is holding its
Own, and some reports place It's condi-
ticn as high as one hundred and five.
4 good deal Of red rust is reported in
the cotton from Raleigh eastward. Corn
N the lowlands is badly injured by
foods, vet considerableof it which was
covered with water has come out since.
On uplands its condition is generally
higher.
Governor Scales to-day appointed
Captain Bcnehan Cameron, Assistant
Inspector General, as one of the staff Of
General Phil. Sheridan at the Philadel-
lLia centennial celebration.
To-day the officers of five new COM
roniCs OF the State Guard were com
missiopCd. The names of the compa-
mics and captains are as follows Char
iotte Light Infantry (colored, Gray }.
ocle; Dare Rifles, James NJ. Whit
son Lumborton Light infantry, y. A.
Mclean; Palmyra Home Guards, ".
L. Sprmll ScotlAnd-Neck Mounted
hihemen, ". j.. Anthony.
\ gentleman who came here to-day
from the Blue Wing copper-mines, in
Granville county, says there is much
enthusiasm over the recent extremely
valuable discoveries of ore. He also
says that the belief is current that the
Oxford and GAINESVILLE road will be ex-
tended to Raleigh.